Word: wintered
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...James Burkitt, stalwart, 40-year-old, shock-headed native of Mississippi (white), whose activities have ranged from puddling iron to selling real estate and reading books on municipal government. Last winter, after living in Jersey City for ten years, Mr. Burkitt arose as a giant of the people. He contributed a series of letters to the Jersey Journal on the subjects of city bonds and citizens' taxes. He signed himself "The Jeffersonian Democrat" and soon became a noted public character. When he called for a mass meeting, 1,500 citizens turned out. Then he began attending sessions...
...near forests would warm the boilers. Two men could attend to feeding the fires. Prompted by this ingenious and civilized enticement to their town, Reno's boosters carried their inventive thoughts into the future. They framed a slogan for the toasted trail: "Steam-heated highways for warm winter tourists...
...their scores in. Tommy Armour was out, eliminated on the second day after a hopeless round, but Barnes was in the running, so were Mehlhorn and Sarazen, and as for Hagen, he was leading and looked like a certain winner-Hagen, who had been acting in the movies all winter, who had given his clubs away and decided only a few months before to quit golf, Hagen, who had been beaten 18 up by Archie Compston in an exhibition match...
...abroad this summer for research work in Europe while three are following out work in this country. Two of these men, Professor G. H. Edgell '09, and Professor S. F. Hamblin, have been granted sabbatical leave for the coming academic year, and will continue their work throughout the winter. The research will be widely varied in its aspects, covering Swedish architecture. French water colors, English landscape and domestic architecture, a study of the ruins of the Romanesque monastic group at Cluny, as well as American city planning...
...wise and prolific producer of plays, Florenz Ziegfeld. Three (Rosalie, The Three Musketeers, Show Boat) of the five shows which he has sponsored since the autumn were playing last week to capacity houses. With the possible exception of The Theatre Guild, no other producer has scored so heavily this winter. Without exception, no other producer has ever enjoyed such consistently large revenues from his theatrical ventures...